This document summarizes the development of a Pharmacy Management System (PMS) to address issues with handling accounts, transactions, stock, and billing. It includes an introduction to the problems with the current system, a timeline, the approach taken in designing the PMS using Visual Studio 2010, C#, MySQL, and a TCP channel. It demonstrates the PMS, discusses problems encountered, and provides ideas for further development and references used.

1. Pharmacy Management
System
Lankapura L.N.T. RU/E/2008/103
Lansakara M.W.N.S. RU/E/2008/104
Mirando E.S.L. RU/E/2008/116
Premachandra H.D.N.B. RU/E/2008/134
Senanayake S.M.L A. RU/E/2008/165

2. Outline
• Introduction
• Time plan
• Approach to PMS
– Designing
• Demo
• Problems
• Further Developments
• References

3. Introduction
Problems in Pharmacy
• Handling Accounts & transactions (Payments, sales)
• Handling Stock(Available stock, Expire dates,)
• Bill issuing.
• Responsibilities of the employees (mistakes, cheatings).
That is why we are giving Pharmacy Management
Solution

4. Using this solution…
• User authentication
• handling accounts & transactions
• Stock handling
• Bill issuing.
• Report generating

5. Time plan

6. Approach to PMS
• Software should contain..
• User authentication
• Stocks
• Invoices
• Reports

7. Approach to PMS Cont…
• We have used
• Visual Studio 2010 – C#
• MySQL 5.0
• MySQL Connector Net 6.3.7
• TCP channel using port 6464 & 3306 (for 3 tier)
• Phases
• Phase 1 – Client GUI
• Phase 2 – Database
• Phase 3 – Server
• Phase 4 – Create TCP channel between GUI & Server

8. Designing
TCP port 6464 TCP port 3306

9. Demonstration

10. Problems
• Issues in interfaces
• Invoice numbers
• Changing the server
• Case sensitive (for searching)

11. Further Developments
• Web base system with limited access to
customers
• More details of employers & suppliers
• Bar code reader
• Cheques & credit cards
• Warnings

12. References
– Microsoft msdn help
– Msdn.microsoft.com/en/us/library
– The Code Project
– www.codeproject.com
– C# Friends
– www.csharpfriends.com
– Microsoft msdn Forum
– Social. Msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en
– Daniweb
– www.daniweb.com/software/development/csharp

13. Thank You !